Netanyahu Under Threat by New Coalition as Black’ Capitalism Narrative Obscures Tulsa History
On this episode of “By Any Means Necessary” hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Dan Cohen, filmmaker and journalist with Behind the Headlines to discuss the coalition forming inside Israel to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the far-right racist politics of Naftali Bennet, who is set to be PM should the coalition succeed and how Israel will still remain an apartheid state even if Netanyahu is ousted.
In the second segment Sean and Jacquie are joined by Jose Cortes, working class Latino candidate for California’s 50th congressional district with the Peace and Freedom Party to discuss Jose’s congressional campaign, the appeal that a Socialist program has to conservative working class communities how capitalism maneuvers to keep progressive and radical candidates off the ballot and off the debate stage.
In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast for our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report” where they discuss the NFL promising to end “race norming”, Naomi Osaka and the tokenizing of mental health in professional sports and the whitewashing of “Coach K” Mike Krzyzewski’s history as he nears retirement.
Later in the show Sean and Jacquie and joined by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, assistant professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College, Visiting Scholar with the Race and Capitalism Project at the University of Chicago, and author of the book, “W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History,” to discuss the skewed narrative around the Tulsa Massacre of 1921, how it reinforces faith in an exploitative capitalist system, the importance of a class analysis on Black History and how the Radical Black Peace Activism of W.E.B. DuBois resonates with social movements today.